Meaning of pavement pizza | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground.
   Australia, UK, countable, humorous, uncountable
2. The badly damaged bodily remains of a person who has jumped or fallen from a great height.
   countable, humorous, uncountable
3. Roadkill.
   US, countable, humorous, uncountable

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Examples

“I think⟳ I'm about to deliver⟳ a pavement pizza.”

“Being drunk is one thing, but creating a pavement pizza on a train⟳ is clearly overstepping the mark⟳.”

“I was so relieved at the end⟳ of the journey that if I had had anything left to throw⟳ up I would have⟳ made it a hat trick⟳ of pavement pizzas.”

“2010, Michael Powell, Matt Forbeck, Forbidden Knowledge College: 101 Things Not Every Student Should Know⟳ How To Do, Adams Media, UK, page 84, This will make⟳ you gag and cough; keep⟳ going until your stomach starts heaving. Open⟳ your throat as if you were is about to swallow⟳ a sword; this sends another signal to your brain that a pavement pizza [is] about to be delivered.”

“She would have⟳ been pavement pizza if she hadn′t been strapped in. As it was, she was hanging from the shoulder strap like⟳ a parachutist who hit a tree.”

“He′d even heard of there having been a jumper once. Ended up as pavement-pizza, but astoundingly still alive, now simply existing in a semi-vegetable state, a crippled slobbering mess, physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his sorry life.”

“Fortunately, technology is in place⟳ to slow your descent before you become⟳ pavement-pizza.”

“That's so the little critters can go there and eat⟳ their little hearts out instead of getting them smashed out on the road as a part of a pavement pizza.”

“Had I been in an SUV, the kid would have⟳ been pavement pizza.”

“If that schnauzer winds up pavement pizza, they′d love⟳ reporting me, they′d be checking my tires for fur in no time.”

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